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      scorner of public reason and justice—that wholesale scoffer at unchained honesty—that merciless mocker at humanity ' s cry—that ruthless slaughterer of thousands for hire , or for a fanfaronade—that laughing drowner of men—that stagnant blooded self-idolizer . They , the Tories of Birmingham , were so besotted , bigotted , and blinded , as to suppose Wellington ' s backing would recommend to and carry their measures with the people of Birmingham !

      Well ; but of the meeting at the Town Hall . Eager and tremendous as was the assembly , it dispersed as quietly as if the components of it had walked away from church or chapel ; and , to the mortification , in the very antipodes of all the forebodings and prophecies of the Tories —to the bitter chagrin of the Dictator Duke ' s parasites and

      martinetswent through the foolishly- contested election and its excitements , as if they had walked to and from market , to learn and carry away the quality of the butter that was exposed . Sternness and steadiness were the only changes from their good-humoured merriment . Pel Verjuice . ¦ - ~ ~ * ~ - — -v -

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      The Mayor of Wind-Gap ; and Canvassing . By the O'Hara Family . Mr . Banim's pen has lost none of its power , nor has the facility with which it depicts the stormiest passions and the broadest humour been ever more strikingly displayed than in these volumes . The first tale is most dramatically constructed ; its contrasts are as strong as the lights

      and darknesses of Rembrandt ; and the unexpected and rapid changes at the conclusion produce an excitement which rather resembles the effect of a well-acted tragedy than that of the mere perusal of a narrative . 4 Canvassing * is of a lighter cast ; and the humours of an Irish

      election , as Irish elections were managed some thirty years ago , are graphically sketched . As the story proceeds , it assumes a pathetic character , and indicates the correct conviction of the author , that heartlessness and folly are too full of mischief in their consequences to be merely laughed at . We wonder that such an artist should occasionally detract

      from the effect of a description by alluding to it as a description . Such pictures as his need not the master ' s name ; and we should else have imagined him to have been generally unconscious that he was penning a description . In the best of them he must , at the time , have been unconscious of himself and his art , and absorbed in the object . So should it ever be .

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      The Sacred Offering .

      We welcome the fifth annual appearance of this work , which comes into the world like a pilgrim from the Holy Land , or a vestal on some mission of mercy from her sacred retreat , herself as pure and graceful as her errand is benign . There is not a poetical flower in it but is moist with the dews and redolent of the perfumes of Paradise . It is not of the earth , nor earthy . The spirit of piety by which it is pervaded is alike

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      140 Critical Notices ,

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      CRITICAL . NOTICES .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/60/